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MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1917
Because right is right, to follow
right
Were wisdom in the scorn of conse
quence.
—Tenntsox.
THE ITALIAN SITUATION
THE success of the German drive
on Italy will have a mighty in
fluence on the future of the war
—but It will not be decisive.
Germany overran Servla, but
Servia is not crushed.
Germany overran Roumania, but
Roumania Is not crushed.
Germany overran Belgium, but
Belgium is not crushed.
Germany invaded Russia, but Rus
sia is not crushed.
And the final decision of this war
will be along the western front,
where the unconquerable French,
British and Americans are preparing
for the final great drive that will end
somewhere beyond the Rhine—pos
sibly in Berlin.
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come
—for the Kaiser.
AT THE FRONT
TELEGRAPH readers were
thrilled Saturday evening by the
graphic and complete account
of how American troops went into
action on the French front. It is a
bit of reporting that will go down
in history. Nobody who read it could
fail to have a clear picture of how
the Americans behaved as they start
ed for the trenches, nor the manner
in which the first American artillery
shot of the war on land was fired.
Two things stand out clearly—
first that the men fully realize the
seriousness of the business upon
which they have entered and sec
ondly, that notwithstanding this they
went into action cool as cucumbers
and keen to do their part.
Calmly it is decided to send the
case of the first shell back to the
President. With equal deliberation
American and French officers indulge
in a luncheon on the field near the
batteries in celebration of the ad
vent of America on the fighting line.
The incident reminds one of Dewey's
"you may fire when you are ready,
Gridley," and of his suspension of the
fighting at Manila while his men
partook of breakfast.
That's the kind of spirit that wins.
The Hun is going to lind the Amer
icans an entirely new factor, while
the Hun himself will be an old story
to the Americans. In other words,
while the United States troops are
called upon to face an enemy whose
strength and weaknesses and manner
of combat are fully known to every
man in khaki, the Germans have yet
to discover the mettle and the tac
tics of their adversaries. That is a
big point in favor of the Americans.
Also, the Americans are fresh and
keen to fight. Their' support and
morale are of the best. The( Ger
mans, on the other hand, are tired
from the constant pounding of Haig
and Petaln, war weary and lacking in
adequate support from home. All
winter they will be subject to the
rattle and bang of the allies' sledge
hammer blows and it will be a won
der, Indeed, if in the fighting that
is to take place all along the western
line next spring, when a million
Americans are at the front, if the
boys from the States do not
find some vital weakness in the Ger
man line through which the first
plunge toward Berlin can be made.
"ECONOMY NOT PENURY"
UNDER that caption an advertis
ing agency writes the Telegraph
begging this newspaper, among
others, to point out the folly of
ruining all legitimate business to
make way for war work.
There is good horse sense back of
this appeal. The war is not going to
laat always, and we must be as ready
for the great Industrial battles of
peace as we are trying to make our
selves for the war we are now en
gaged in waging. Lack of "prepared
ness" has delayed our participation
in the war. The French and the Eng
lish have stood between ourselves
and Germany, but there will be none
to stand between us and our rivals
In the contest for commercial su
premacy which is to follow.
Yea, we must be economical, and
true economy will be vastly beneficial
MONDAY EVENING,
to us as a people, but we must not be
penurious. We must live our lives as
nearly normal as is possible. We
must save where ever we can, but
we must be careful not to over do it;
not to ruin the businesses and indus
tries upon which we will have to de
pend for prosperity when the war
trade ceases.
ONE CASK TO APPEAL
IF there is anything in the argu
ment that one of the reasons the
general assembly gave the Public
Service Commission authority to
regulate utilities was to prevent
burdens upon the public either in
the form of unjust rates or waste
ful competition, it would seem that
the decision of the commission that
mergers of competing telephone
companies can not be approved un
der the constitution adopted 4\ years
ago, is one which should be reviewed
by the superior court. It is a case
wherein there is a difference, of
opinion among the commissioners
themselves and about which law
yers disagree. It presents the ques
tion whether situations arising out
of conditions unforeseen by the
framers of the organic law of Penn
sylvania are to be regulated by Im
plication or whether public interest
shall govern.
The commissioner in the minority
in the case writes that the people in
the territory covered by the two
telephone companies are confronted
with a "twice the pay and half the
service" proposition, which the ma
jority report of the commission
candidly admits when it declares
"the operation of the competing
lines of telephone in this particular
district is uneconomic and wasteful."
The majority holds that the consti
tution and the acts passed in pur
suance thereof prohibit consolida
tion of competing telegraph lines
and that courts and legislatives
have classified the telephone with
the telegraph. The minority holds
that things coming into existence
since 1873 and forming so vital a
part of daily life as the telephone
should not be arbitrarily placed un
der the same restrictions as t.he
telegraph. The telegraph was the
chief mechanical means of long dis
tance transmission of information
known when the constitution was
adopted and for convenience in In
corporation of companies for tele
phone development they were classi
fied with the telegraph companies by
exercise of "latitudinous power."
No one can foretell' when thj
people of Pennsylvania, who are
rather weary of continual attempts
to amend the constitution, will or
dain a new constitutional conven
tion and no one can foresee what
new utilities may spring from the
minds of Inventors, especially in an
hour like the present, when the
genius of America has been sum
moned to devise new means of na
tional defense. Ideas conceived in
the crisis of war may be applied in
astonishing ways to the arts of
peace, just as the Prussian mind
perverted the achievements of civil
ization to the prosecution of war
in its most diabolic form. The pro
gress of science in annihilation of
distance has been so marvelous
that within a decade we may be
employing hourly things as little
thought of now as was competition
in wireless telephoning or aero
plane express service in the day of
the Columbian Exposition. The
habits of economy that the most ex
travagant people on earth will have
ingrained in them when this war is
ended will be such as to refus to
stand for what is patently "bad
business" in industry, government
or utilities.
• Quite regardless of whether two
telephone companies, two cold stor
age companies or two sewage dis
posal companies are involved, this
case would seem to present a ques
tion which should be taken before
the appellate court.
KEEPING OUR BOYS FIT
THE letters from the Harrisburg
boys now in the service of their
country which have been print
ed from time to time in the Tele
graph have aroused more general in
terest than any matter that has
come through regular news sources.
These letters are full of picturesque
detail and breathe the very atmos
phere of the military operations.
Above all else is the optimism of
these youths who have gone into the
service with their eyes open and with
patriotic devotion to their country
which constitutes one of the bright
est phases of the war.
Now that our troops are on *.he
very firing line in Europe, we shall
have a keener appreciation of what
these young men who have gone out
from the hemes of Central Pennsyl
vania and from every other part of
the country are doing for the great
cause that concerns all civilization.
As the real situation is being
forced home upon our people the
concern of all good citizens In the
welfare of the men in camps and at
the front grows with the increasing
knowledge of the difficulties and the
perils and the hardships which en
viron them. It ought not to be nec
essary, under those conditions to urge
the generous support of the great
movement under the direction of the
War Work Council, which contem
plates recreational and other facili
ties for the welfare and comfort of
our soldier boys who have left com
fortable homes In obedience to the
call of their country and in pursu
ance of a high apd lofty purpose.
Harrisburg has been most gener
ous in all campaigns for subscrip
tions—the necessary campaigns
which have been inaugurated since
our entrance Into the war. A few
men some months ago in this city
subscribed over $12,000 for the
maintenance of war work activities,
but the need is now so great that a
fund of <35,000,000 is being raised
In the United States for this work
and the city of Harrlsburg and Dau
phin County together will be .asked
for $50,000 of this amount.
We believe that what is so ob
viously necessary for the mainte
nance of the morale of the troops,
their comfort and efficiency ought
not to require special urging at this
time. We must fight this war to a
successful finish and to do so we
must see to it that our own soldiers
are kept fit
fMiictU
By the Ex-Committeeman
Practically the whole state is wait
ing for two things growing out of
the Philadelphia situation and they
are expected to have a big effect not
only upon the election of next week
in the Quaker City but upon the
making of state tickets next year.
There are other developments of
state-wide interest in that city as a
result of the primary but these two
are the greatest.
The matters referred to are the
decision of Judge H. A. Davis on the
nominating petitions of the Town
Meeting party, which is due to-day.
and the request of the leaders of
the Town Meeting to the Governor to
detail state police to Philadelphia for
election day.
In the nominating petition battle
in the court on Saturday things were
rather favorable to the Town Meet
ing party and its lawyers claim that
Its candidates will be on the ticket.
The request for state police is
made in a letter which denounces the
Philadelphia city police and puts up
to the Governor for the first time
whether state police should be used
in city elections.
—While there are many interest
ing things going on in Philadelphia
and there are signs that citizens are
aroused there have been so many
crusades undertaken in that city
lately that it will take great work to
overcome the regular ticket. The
Vare organization is on its mettle
and working day and night. Dis
trict Attorney Rotan has started an
investigation into thfe operations of
magistrates and has issued a de
mand on the mayor that police be
taken out of politics, pledging him
self to ask the next Legislature for a
law which will place the force on a
basis as that in London or the state
police of Pennsylvania. Senator Pen
rose has endorsed Rotan's stand, as
have the Philadelphia newspapers.
—The Town Meeting party has
named candidates for council and
prominent men such as A. Merritt
Taylor have taken the stump for it.
It is recognized that it is going to
take hard work to defeat the admin
istration in Philadelphia.
—Congressman W. S. Yare and
other Philadelphians are making an
energetic protest to Secretary Baker
against the dismemberment of the
First and Second City troops of the
First Cavalry. They are also pro
testing against the dismemberment
of the Third Regiment.
—People here read with much in
terest the merging of newspapers in
Hazleton. That city now has one
morning and one evening newspaper.
The morning paper will be the
Standard-Sentinel and the evening
paper the Plain Speaker.
—The Philadelphia Press has this
Interesting editorial reference to the
proposition to impeach Mayor Smith:
"There is some merit in the 'recall'
and its powers can be invoked under
our present law by impeachment. If
the people of Philadelphia realize as
they should the enormity of Mayor
Smith's action and shake off the un
intelligent superstition that asso
ciates national issues and local elec
tions and will vote in sufficiently
large numbers for the Town Meet
ing candidates government by thug
gery and murder will secure a much
deserved rebuke In this city."
—Chief Clerk George D. Thorn, I
of the Department of the Secretary
of the Commonwealth, has been com
pelled to have a reprinting of the
list of city and county-wide nominees
in the state for the use of the sol
diers on election day owing -to late
reports made. It is expected to have
the newlilts ready to deliver to the
commissioners to take the votes who
will meet here to-morrow afternoon
for instruction and to receive their
supplies from Secretary Woods. Gov
ernor Brumbaugh will address the
commissioners.
—Designation of Captain George
C. Lumb, deputy superintendent of
state police, is expected to be made
shortly as acting superintendent dur
ing the leave of absence given Colo
nel John C. Groome, the superinten
dent. The names of several men
have been heard as possible selec
tions, but it is said to be the inten
tion of the Governor to maintain the
traditions of the force.
—The mayoralty campaigns in
Pittsburgh and Scranton, where the
state administration people are tak
ing as big an interest in the results
as in Harrisburg will enter upon the
final week with lines tightened. The
candidates and their orators are
scheduled to make many speeches
and various charge# are being made
already about the nominees.
—"The Insider" in the Philadel
phia Press has this to say: "My old
friend 'Jimmy' Sheehan, he of the
funny stories, is likely to receive the
swiftest calldown of his gay life one
of these nights when he tells a crowd
that Senator McNichol will surely
support the entire Republican tick
et with all his resources. 'Jimmy'
alleges that he has full authority
from the Senator for his statement.
I have heard men who are closer to
McNichol than Sheelian is declare
that he has never made any such
statement and, as for authorizing
any one to speak for hipi, all who
know 'Jim' McNichol will agree that
he has always talked for himself and
never has delegated any person to
speak for him politically.
—A Philadelphia dispatch from
Wilkos-Barre says: "Judge Fuller
and his friends have made it per
fectly plain to the rank and file of
the Republican party that Shea,
Emanski and Gallagher have lined
up as a Democratic ticket, making
the nonpartisan Judgeship campaign
nonpartisan in name only. Repub
licans have taken notice of this and
Judge Fuller is now very properly
linked as a candidate of the Repub
licans, carried along by all the lead
ers and supporters of the party."
—Anent the Schuylkill judgeship,
a Pottsvllle dispatch says: "Non
partisan though the office may be,
nevertheless there will be some par
tisanship thrown into the campaign.
It is conglomeration. Judge H. O.
Bechtel is a Democrat. Judge C. E.
Berger is a Republican. John Rob
ert Jones is a Progressive, and James
J. Bell a Democrat. Hence there
are two Democrats, a Republican and
a Progressive. Judges Bechtel and
Berger start out with having the Re
publican and Democratic organiza
tions with them. That gives them
prestige, which was proved at the
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primaries, for they ran away from
their opponents, Jones and Bell."
—Republican County Chairman J.
I. Steel, of Northumberland county,
following a meeting: of committee
men at Sunbury'on Saturday, an
nounced there is little chance for
Democratic success at the ensuing
general election. Steel looks for big
Republican gains throughout the en
tire county. He is confident the par
ty will record a very big ballot in
Watsontown, Milton, Northumber
land, Sunbury, Shamokin and Mt.
Carmel. If It does, there is little
doubt that the ticket will win hands
down. Republicans are encouraged
this year because of the apathy of
Democratic workers, especially in the
mine districts. They say they don't
care how the election goes and that
they will remain away from the
polls.
—The Philadelphia Ledger says in
its political column: "There Is a
feeling in political circles that the
present situation In, this city—the
tight between Penrose and the Vares
—indicates that there will be a state
wide fight next year between the
rival factions over the Republican
nomination for Governor. It had
been generally understood that Sen
ator Sproul, dean of the State Sen
ate, would be agreed upon by all
elements as the 'harmony' choice for
Governor. And, even so, that may
develop. But It is learned that Sen
ator Penrose is not yet committed
to Sproul or any one else for Gov
ernor. And this though Penrose and
Sproul have discussed the matter in
formally betweyi themselves. The
Penrose point of view is that the
gubernatorial question will be an
swered when it is known whether or
not the Vares will back a candidate
of their own, or 'go along with the
Penrose state organization.' Fur
thermore, much will depend upon
the policy of the Democrats. It may
well be that the Republican leaders
will have to take the labor move
ment into most serious consideration,
for Penrose leaders realize that the
Democratic National Administration
is making friends with the working
man. Labor is getting high wages
and labor Is being richly recognized
by the Federal Administration with
numerous political offices. So It is
evident that many problems will have
to be solved before Senator Penrose
and his friends finally commit them
selves to a candidate for Governor."
NOT ALWAYS
"Ambassador Gerard," said a New
York broker, "had a happy way In
Berlin of chaffing the great war lords
and dictators.
"A grand duke said to the Am
bassador at a reception:
" 'Germany will win this war.
Then let America look out.'
"'How will Germany win?' said
Mr. Gerard, calmly.
" 'With her submarines, with her
gases, and, above all,' said the grand
duke, 'with perseverance. Perse
verance, Mr. Ambassador, always
conquers.'
" 'Always?' said Mr. Gerard, wink
ing at his second secretary. 'How
about the hen on the china egg?' "
—Washington Star.
A GERMAN PROBLEM
One serious economic problem that
is going to confront Germany pretty
soon is what to do with all the bright
young men who have been trained
for spy careers.—Ohio State Jour
nal.
"TWENTY YEARS AGO"
Ladles wore bustles.
Operations were rare.
Nobody swatted the fly.
Nobody had seen a silo.
Nobody had appendicitis.
Nobody wore white shoes.
Cream was 5 cents a pint.
Cantaloupes were muskmelons.
Most young men had "livery bills."
You never heard of a "tin lizzie."
Doctors wanted to see your tongue.
Milk shake was a favorite drink.
Advertisers did not tell the truth.
Nobody cared for the price of
gasoline.
Farmers came to town for their
mall.
The hired girl drew one-fifty a
week.
The butcher "threw in" a chunk of
liver.
Folks said pneumatic tires were a
Jok*e.
Nobody "listened in" on a tele
phone.
There were no sane Fourths, nor
electric meters.
Strawstacks were burned Instead
of baled.
Publishing a country newspaper
was not a business.
People thought English sparrows
were "birds."
Jules Verne was the only convert
to the submarine.
You stuck tubes In your ears to
hear a Phonograph, and It cost a
dime.—Pike County (111.) Republi
can.
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The Belgian Coast Line
Perhaps in no other war in mod
ern history have a few miles counted
for as much in the scales of victory
as In the present contest in West
Flanders, says a bulletin issued by
the Bureau of Geographic Informa
tion of the National Geographic So
ciety. The distance which separates
the Allied forces from full control
of the coast of Belgium is only 30
miles. Possession of these 30 miles
of coastline would not only wipe out
the German submarine bases in Bel
glum, but it would also give the Al
lies a new front upon which to at
tack in an effort to drive the enemy
out of Belgium and Northern France.
Possession of this coast, therefore,
would be a double victory to the Al
lies, sorely hampering the enemy's
submarine operations and at the
same time affording an opportunity
to roll up his right flank on land.
Nowhere else may be found tl
more striking contrast between peace
and war than that afforded by the
Belgian coast In 1913 and 1917.
Practically the entire coastline in
normal times is given up to the
pleasures of seaside cities and rest
resorts. La Panne, Coxyde-Plage,
Oost-Duinkerke, Nieuport-Bains,
Westende, Middelkerke, Le Coq-sur-
Mer, Wenduyne-sur-Mer, Blanken
berglie, Heyst-sur-Mer and Knocke
sur-Mer are all places which remind
one of the seaside cities of New Jer
sey. Of these, Ostend, Nieuport-
Bains and Blankenberglie are the
most pretentious.
In these Atlantic Citys, Cape Mays
and Asbury Parks of Belgium laugh
ter and happiness reigned with a
carefree abandon that only Euro
pean resorts could know, while to
day war, on land, under sea and in
the air, harries the souls of/the few
STRAWS
One after another the brewing
companies proclaim with loud en
coniums the virtues of new cooling
and refreshing drinks which they
have begun to manufacture. They
are non-alcoholic, but attractive with
the peculiar flavor of the hops. The
enthusiasm with which their makers
launch them upon the world sug
gests a strong belief in the perma
nency of their use. Wo congratu
late the brewers on their new proj
ect; it is interesting to speculate on
what it means.
Brewers are not wont to fail in
worldly wisdom.
Can it be that they foresee an ap
proaching time when they will be
forced by public opinion to take the
adder's sting out of their brewings?
Are they "hedging" against the
march of prohibition?
Shall We soon see the brewers
making drink without the alcohol
and the distillers making alcohol
without the drink?
Blows the wind that way?— From
the New York Independent.
HIS HOME PAPER
What shall you send him when
he's in training camp or over there?
A letter? By all means, that fore
most and oftenest. And after that,
what? Some foolish little knick
knack which is neither quite orna
mental nor entirely serviceable? Or,
when in doibt, will you take a lesson
from what Richard Henry Dana
wrote In "Two Years Before the
Mast?"
"After all, there is nothing in a
strange land like a newspaper from
home. Even a letter, In many re
spects, Is nothing in comparison with
it. Tt carries you bai-K . the spot
better than anything else."
There is more in this to-day than
Dana ever put there.—From Collier's
Weekly.
HIS CRIME
"I have just robbed a clothing
store," confessed J. Fflller Gloom.
"The salesman assured me, with in
nocence In his glance and tears in
his voice, that the suit upon which I
had fixed my fancy was costing his
boss five dollars more to-day than he
was selling It for, and that in three
months' time it would cost at least
ten dollars more. I insisted on
taking It, and thus helped the vil
lainous salesman to rob the proprie
tor of all the money he might have
made by keeping the suit." —Kansas
City Star.
IN riMES OF AFFLICTION
If, when evil cometh upon us, ns
the sword, judgment, or pestilence,
or famine, we stand before this
house, and In thy presence (f6r my
name Is In this house), and cry unto
thee In our affliction, then thou wilt
hear and help.—ll Chronicles xx, 9.
OCTOBER 29, 1917T
brave people who still remain there.
Between La Panne a,nd Oost-Duin
kerke is the Hooge-Blikker, 105 feet
high, the highest point of the Bel
gian dunes, and also the widest
point. Just outside of Nieuport-
Bains, in the village of Lombartzyde,
there is a celebrated figure of the
Madonna, held in high veneration by
Flemish fishermen from time Im
memorial, and to which the Flem
ings are to-day addressing their ap
peal that their land shall be liberated
from the iron heel of the invader.
Ostend is famous not only as a
seaside resort, but for its great fish
ing trade in normal times and
oyster parks. Oysters in large num
bers arc brought here and kept, in
clarified sea water. The visitor may
order his plate of shellfish right out
of the water.
Should the Allies get control of the
coast of Belgium as far inland as
Bruges, they would come into pos
session of a splendid system of ca
nals extending from France to Fur
nes, and thence, byway of .Nieuport,
to Ostend and Bruges. There is also
a canal from Bruges to the coast
near Blankenberghe, another to
Ghent, and a third to the waterway
connecting Heyst with Ghent. A
railroad parallels the coast all the
way from the French border to the
Dutch frontier.
West Flanders, where the big
English smash is now on, is gener
ally flat and low, and in parts
marshy. Under a system of intenive
agriculture, tiie province was one of
the most productive in Belgium in
the years before the war. and 40
per cent of the population was en
gaged in manufacturing, the princi
pal industry being linen weaving and
lacemaking.
LINCOLN AND THE WAR
"Think of the incident that oc
curred in 1864 in the administration
of Abraham Lincoln as President of
the United States. The political as
pect of the whole country was that
of a seething, boiling Niagara. Some
gentlemen from the west were ex
cited about the commissions or
omissions of the Administration.
President Lincoln heard them pa
tiently, and then replied: "Gentle
men, suppose all the property you
were worth was in gold, and you bad
put it in the hands of Blondin to
carry across the Niagara River on
a rope; would you shake the cable or
keep shouting out to him, 'Blondin,
stand up a little straighter!" Blon
din, stoop a little more!' 'Go a
little faster!' 'Lean a little more to
the south!' 'Blondin, lean a littie
more to the north?' No; you would
hold your breath, as well as your
tongue, and keep your hand off until
he was safe over. The Government
is carrying an immense weight. Un
told treasures are in our hands. Keep
silence, and we'll get you safely
across."
OUR REGULAR JOB
Let us then be up and doing,
In our old familiar way,
Putting off until to-morrow
What we ought to do to-day.
—Kansas City Star.
CHEMIN-DES-DAMES
I In silks and satins the ladles went
Where the breezes sighed and the
poplars bent.
Taking the air of a Sunday morn
Midst the red of popples and gold of
corn—
Flowery ladies In gold brocades,
With negro pages and serving maids.
In scarlet coach or in gilt sedan.
With brooch and buckle and flounce
and fan.
Patch and powder and trailing scent,
Under the trees the ladies went—
Lovely ladies that gleamed and
glowed,
As they took the air on th 6 Ladies'
y Road.
Boom of thunder and lightning
flash —
The torn earth rocks to the barrage
crash;
The bullets whine and the bullets
sing
From the mad machine guns chat
tering;
Black smoke rolling across the mud.
Trenches plastered with llesh and
i blood—
The blue ranks lock with the ranks
of gray,
Stob and stagger and sob and sway;
The living cringe from the shrapnel
bursts,
The dying moan of their burning
thirsts,
Moan and die in the gulping
slough—
Where are the butterfly ladies now?
—Patlander In Punch (London).
LABOR NOTES
Columbus, Ohio, bookbinders have
increased wages $2 a week.
There are in the United States more
than 80.000 registered nurses.
Seattle, Wash., printing pressmen
have increased wages $3 a week.
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
have ninety Canadian local unions.
Sugar growing, next to mining, is
the greatest industry in South Africa.
Over 120,000 women in Kngland
and Wales are working in agricul
ture.
Every fourth nurse in New York
City has volunteered for Red Cross
work.
Nearly all the printing shops in
London, Eng., employ women com
positors.
Employment of women on the Scot
tish railways has doubled since the
war began.
Of the 680 shipyards in the world.
Great Britain has the majority and
Holland ranks second.
A convention of the United States
Brewers Association decided to raise
wages of all employes.
The wartime demand for dyestuffs
has revivified the ancient indigo in
dustry of Central America.
Journeymen tailors will start an
organization campaign throughout
Canada's eastern provinces.
Stockings were first worn in tho
eleventh century. Before that cloth
bandages were used on the feet.
| OUR DAILY LAUGH]
i
NOW HE GOES \ / jgfe&f
AFTER IT /ffe; ~
Times have JjP <)B
changed.
What now? ra '
I was Just im f
thinking that I
can remember WvN ~
the time yhen a <MJ —wrAL-
I man bought life
I Insurance mere- ™
\ ly to get rid of 1l
| the agents. ~jj_ -Jj j
fA GUEiS.
Why golfing is
so popular
We can't ex
actly see
Unless folks
take to It
It suits thesa
fU,
JUNGLE JESTS.
Snal<e —Old Kangaroo looks kind
of seedy. Sort of down and out.
Monk—Yes, on his last legs as It
were.
HtJ fcOT
kBOv IM
"TMW ./
FAMILY |
Dodge seems
•11 puffed up
with conceit OSjT
these days. \
What's the jj
reason? I
He has a boy
fchgntng (Efral
It is going to taXe more than th
green signs of rales and regulations
and the gray clad park policemen to
prevent men and boys turning the
city's parks and parkways into hunt
ing grounds unhappy for the bitn
and squirrels and more or less annoj.
ing to visitors. Under the regulation*
adopted by the city fathers som
years ago at the instance of the Park
Commission the use of firearms waft
forbidden within the park system.
Similarly that noiseless, but most
effective weapon of boyhood, th
slingshot, was also put out of busi
ness along with the air rifle. Who
wood park is still wild as far as the
birds, squirrels, rabbits, quail, bull
frogs, snakes and occasional 4
and deer are concerned. The Cam
eron and Paxtang parkways are full
of charm because about all that has
been done has been to fence them in
and build roads. Otherwise, they
are as natural as the ravines out
back of the State Hospital or the
valley of Beaver creek. The unfor
tunate thing about it appears to bo
that this is a season when wild life
is frisky and this year it seems to
be very abundant. Hence the temp
tation of Runners or boys who rout
out a rabbit or spy a squirrel is to
let drive. What the city needs is a
couple of arrests for hunting in tho
places set apart for pleasure of all
lest in a few years they come to be
regarded as a game preserve.
• * *
Some of the farmers in this sec
tion of the state who have not been
attending city markets and who
showed no interest In tho proposed
curb market say that the city folks
themselves are to blame for not get
things brought to market.
Why, I 11 bet I know a dozen far
mers that have regular callers in
automobiles every week," was the
rather surprising statement made by
one farmer living in the Cumberland
valley, while it is no secret that there
are plenty of vegetables bought every
time some people go out into the
country for an automobile run.
Some of those report some interest
ing experiences -With farmers who
Insist that they have sold all of their
produce and that they can't listen to
any proposition. When the proposi
tions have been made at good prices
sales have resulted.
• • •
The demand for grapes on the part
of people of foreign birth in this
section, which is accounted for by
the lactivity of the foreigners in
making their own wine in order to
avoid the tax which the government
lays upon the wines and liquors sold
generally, but which people who
make their own are not called upon
to meet, is causing some farmers to
get good prices for a crop which
often yields very little. There are
farmers and orchard owners in this
section who have grape vines to
which they give little attention and
some of them raise the grapes for
their own use. This fall they have
been selling the grapes at a profit
for the first time. Some of them
sold grapes on the vine. The buyers
in almost every instance were for
eigners. Incidentally, it may be add
ed that brewing companies have
been looking closely after their
"empties."
• • •
Men interested in the development
of the Susquehanna Trail highway,
which is planned to extend from this
city to Elmira, have organized ono
of the greatest collection of boosters
to be found along any road route in
the state. It includes many promi
nent In affairs in the counties and
towns traversed and working from
Williamsport they have interested
men in practically every town who
talk up the historic and sentimental
features of the highway, which is
said to follow the old Indian trail, f
and then urge citizens to work for its
permanent improvement. The sam s
plan Is being followed in the Sulli
van trail, dedicated to the march of
Sullivan's expedition against the In
dians in reprisal for the Wyoming
massacre, and the Perry highway,
which will go to Erie. Lieutenant
Governor Frank B. McClain, an offi
cer of the Lincoln highway and who
helped make it famous, says that
these"highways not only bring better
roads, but get people interested in
local history. It is probable that
when the war activities which liavo
called the men prominent in tho .
'William Penn highway to directing
other and more important work for
the nation end that the great central
highway project will be revived. It
is interesting to note that practically
everyone of the directors of the Penn
highway is a leader in the Liberty
Loan, War Council or other big
j things of the day.
Farmers are being urged to help
out the general food situation bv
raising fish in the idle waters on
nianv fmms. Some months ago
Nathan E. Buller, the State Fish
Commissioner, issued a pamphlet on
what an acre of water on a farm will
raise, giving practical advice about
preparing a pond or a brook and
stocking it. William E. Meehan, for
mer commissioner and now In
charge of the Philadelphia city
aquarium, is writing a series of arti
cles on the same line. One of them
appeared last week in the Pennsyl
vania Farmer. It would seem from
what these two experts are writing
and saying as though the farmer was
letting a good thing go by. People
will buy frfcsh fish off a farmer's
stall In a market as speedily as ever
they did when "Meeley" Russ used
to get up at 2 a. m. to sell fish t
pillars of this community who did
ihe marketing on Market Square.
* •
Harrisburg is getting to be very
much in the parade class. Traveling
men who have been here remark
upon the patriotic interest of tho
community and say that the fame of
the State Capital in not having to
send men under the draft has been
noised throughout eastern states.
The big patriotic parade last spring
is held to have materially stimulated
things hereabouts.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "
—General John J. Pershing's fam
ily came from Westmoreland County,
although he was born in Missouri.
—Judge H. A. Davis, who is pre
siding In the Philadelphia hearing:,
used to be an active National
Guardsman.
—George H. Earle, Jr., who eajr%
that there will be a sugar shortage*
after the war. is one of the for**
most authorities on sugar
turlng on the seaboard. v
—Judge W. Rush Gillan marched
in Chafmbersburg's parade in
of the loan subscription.
—lsaac H. Clothier, who planted a
tree at Swarthmore on Arbor Day,
has been one of the trustees for al
most forty year*.
| DO YOU KNOW J
—That Harrlsburg's Arbor
celebration attracted much oorf<
mf'nt throughout the state?
HISTORIC H.AItRISBURG
This city's first park was tha
"commons" along the river bank and
It was used for everything from
horse racing to rifle matches in early
days.